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Sure, there's a difference between "Putin is trying to be a czar, this is bad and Putin is bad" Vs "Putin is good, everything wrong with Russia is the fault

by klipt 4y ago

Sure, there's a difference between "Putin is trying to be a czar, this is bad and Putin is bad" Vs "Putin is good, everything wrong with Russia is the fault of those perfidious czars! Citizens are reminded that any criticism of Putin is illegal czarist sentiment, and to report all czarist sentiment to Putin's secret police. They know where to find you." When South Africans realized their public funds were being looted by the Gupta family, and the latter paid PR firm Bell Pottinger to come up with a campaign to blame everything on white people ... that starts looking a little more like the latter situation.

wizofaus 4y ago
But you could argue that the ANC only gets away with blaming everything on white people because the narrative that the country was historically screwed up when it was run by them actually has some credibility to it. Again, not defending that blame-culture at all, it's completely counter-productive.